The Aga Khan Development Network is a global structure that supervises the work of the Aga Khan agencies in the fields of economic, social and cultural development. Recently it has approved an eight country Civil Society Programme, and the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the countries in which this programme will be implemented.

The agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network are becoming known in the Kyrgyz Republic – ranging from the Aga Khan School in Osh, the University of Central Asia which is planned to be established in Naryn, the Kyrgyzstan Investment and Credit Bank, the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance to the AKF’s integrated rural development programme being set up in the rayons of Alai and Chun Alai in Osh Oblast. The latest addition is this Civil Society Programme.